disdainfully
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a disdainful manner.
Example Sentences
- ""There are other people coming besides the Princess Ziska, are there not, Mr. Murray?" inquired Sir Chetwynd Lyle, with an obtrusively bantering air. Denzil Murray glanced him over disdainfully."
- "In what the antistock Carbon County Journal referred to disdainfully as "another of those farcical cattle cases," he was charged with running his own Staircase brand over a neighboring L 7 […], a charge which if true was not farcical at all."
- "Instructor George Breathitt asked an audience of 300 computer enthusiasts in Louisville, Kentucky, how many seniors in the group would like to teach other seniors about computers. A younger member of the audience quipped disdainfully, "Wouldn't that be the blind leading the blind?""
- "Housemate”,’ he repeated, disdainfully. ‘What does this word imply?’ ‘That we are two unpartnered people, sharing the cost of the rent on a house, and are not romantically involved.’"
Etymology
Etymology tree English disdainful Middle English -ly English -ly English disdainfully From disdainful + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more disdainfully (comparative)
most disdainfully (superlative)